Men who come in asking about low testosterone usually arrive with a list of symptoms: no energy, no drive, difficulty putting on muscle, low mood, poor concentration. It is a reasonable list and it points…
It rarely arrives gradually. A man buries his father and finds that a month later he cannot stop calculating how many years he has left at the age his father died. Or a knee gives…
A man who has put on twenty pounds over a decade generally knows it, and generally has a plan involving January. What he is less likely to know is whether any of it matters medically,…
Anyone in immediate danger should call 911. The 988 Suicide Crisis Helpline is available anywhere in Canada by call or text, 24 hours a day.This article covers something that sounds administrative and is one of…
Medication lists grow by accretion. A blood pressure tablet started at forty-five, something for reflux added by a walk-in clinic, an anti-inflammatory taken most days for a back that never fully settled, a statin after…
You notice it before you can name it. He has stopped coming out. He is drinking more, or sleeping in his truck, or has become short-tempered over things that never used to bother him. Maybe…
The appointment was booked for something else. A refill, a work medical, a sore shoulder. The other thing — the lump, the leaking, the blood, the fact that sex has stopped working — was rehearsed…
Depression treatment has genuinely changed over the past decade, and for men who have tried two or three antidepressants without much benefit, that matters. It also means the subject now attracts an enormous amount of…
For a man working a rotation, living two hours out of town, or trying to arrange something without taking half a day off, a virtual appointment can be the difference between getting care and continuing…
The most common way psychiatric medication ends is not a plan. It is a man who has been feeling steady for several months, who never much liked being on it, who runs out on a…
